Posting a dump was a single form where the important choices were the easiest
to miss. It is now three panels: link or file, why & where, playlists.
Composition:
- No more URL/File toggle. An empty panel offers both ways in at once and the
kind follows what you actually did; a file dropped anywhere in the modal is
accepted, not just on the zone.
- Categories and visibility get their own panel instead of a disclosure that
read as optional, and the primary button stays "Next" until they've been
seen. Visibility carries a real label now.
- The draft (link, title, why, categories, visibility) is mirrored to
localStorage on every change and restored on reopen, so Escape or a stray
backdrop click costs nothing. Only an attached file can't be restored, so
that is the one case that asks before closing.
- URL dumps can carry a poster-supplied title instead of being stuck with
whatever the page scraped, editable right under the preview.
- Multipart uploads go through XHR so there is a real progress bar and a
percentage on the button, rather than 50 MB of silence.
Duplicates:
- New dumps.url_canonical column (+ index, backfilled by 0013) holding a lossy
key that ignores scheme, www., trailing slashes, tracking parameters and
YouTube share shapes. GET /api/dumps/by-url reads it, and the create form
warns "already dumped by X" while it fetches the preview. Never blocking.
Fixes:
- /api/preview now reports whether the page was actually reached: a failed
fetch still yields a hostname-only stub, so a dead link and a page without
metadata used to render identically.
- The Web Share Target never worked. The manifest posts to "/", but the index
redirect dropped the query string, so every Android share landed on the feed
with nothing pre-filled.
- File dumps no longer take the extension into their title.
- The link field no longer autofocuses on touch, where it raised a keyboard
over the modal.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TiAPtJZeCYYk8rKehtLUQU
Thumbnails were failing in two different ways that both ended as an empty box.
Cloudflare hotlink protection answers a cross-site Referer with 403, so images
we had extracted correctly (dles.aukspot.com's og:image among them) never
rendered — every onError handler set display:none and swallowed it. The new
Thumbnail component loads with referrerPolicy="no-referrer", retries once
through /api/proxy-image for hosts that reject an empty referrer too, and only
then falls back to a placeholder.
Separately, the extraction cascade ended at the page's icon and then a guessed
/favicon.ico, so thumbnailUrl was almost never empty — just a 16x16 icon
cover-cropped into a 128x72 box. It now stops at real artwork, with faviconUrl
and accentColor (theme-color / msapplication-TileColor / mask-icon) as their own
fields. An absent thumbnailUrl finally means "no artwork", which is what makes
the placeholder possible: the site's own color mixed into the theme surface,
with its favicon centered on it, or its initial. Contrast holds for any
third-party color by construction rather than by luminance math, so nyt only
has to set --thumb-tint-strength to 0% to stay monochrome and geocities only
has to raise it. Missing accents fall back to a stable hostname-derived hue, so
rows saved before this get a tint with no backfill.
Migration 0011 reclassifies favicon-shaped thumbnailUrls on existing dumps.
The journal mosaic keeps its pull-quote and text fallbacks — the placeholder
appears there only to repair a broken image.
Also fixed: refresh silently overwrote good metadata with a failure stub, the
refresh button swallowed every error, refresh never broadcast the update,
extractBestIcon ranked SVG icons below 16x16 PNGs, and shared links with no
artwork carried no og:image at all.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
